Google Test Automation Conference 2010 October 28-29, 2010 Twist, A Next Generation Functional Testing Tool for Building and Evolving Test Suites by Vivek Prahlad, ThoughtWorks Abstract: Over the years, IDEs like IntelliJ and Eclipse have proved to be invaluable while working with large, complex code bases. However, tools that help testers work with large, complex test suites have been few and far between. Twist is an attempt at addressing this imbalance. Twist is a powerful testing IDE that makes it possible to build, evolve and execute functional tests. By allowing tests to be written in a form that is close to the domain of the application under test, it allows domain experts / business analysts to collaborate in building functional tests along with the rest of the development team. Twist allows test suites to be viewed as as a coherent entity, and hence allows them to move beyond just automating individual tests. As the application under test evolves, Twist makes it possible to quickly make changes to the test suite. Apart from facilitating rapid automation, Twist also supports manual testing and automation assisted exploration. Speaker Bio: Vivek Prahlad is a Technical Lead at ThoughtWorks Studios, where he helps build Twist, a next generation Functional Testing tool. He has been with ThoughtWorks for the past 7 years. During his career, Vivek has been a Technical Lead, Agile Coach and Project Manager. Vivek is also the author of Frankenstein, an open source testing …
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Google Tech Talks January 18, 2007 ABSTRACT We’ll cover: -approapriate attire for wilderness activities (“cotton kills”) -how not to get lost Once lost: -signaling for assistance (both day and night) -building land markers to indicate direction -choosing a location for shelter -building shelters -finding and purifying water -basic medical kit and its use -basic land navigation (and direction determination) without a compass -also, well cover “child SAR”, so parents are encouraged to attend Credits: Speaker:Robert Nielsen
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Google Tech Talks April, 11 2008 ABSTRACT Shrine and TukTuk, two Los Angeles artists in town for the upcoming Yuri’s Night celebration at NASA, will be speaking at Google about their work in organizing this year’s Temple. The Temple is a tradition at Burning Man, the most meaningful installation to many participants in the yearly arts festival. Shrine and TukTuk will talk about the project, with plenty of burnerly hyjinx to make you laugh and pARTicipate. Speaker: TukTuk Writer, craftsman, builder, networker, and project manager Tucker Teutsch 3.0 tends always to think on a grand scale. After teaming up with his old pal Shrine for last year’s Tasseograph: Trash Tea Temple, he swore he’d never do it again. And yet he has a certain reputation for getting things done and has honed his skill as a natural team leader—both as logistics consultant for outdoor festivals and as lead organizer for various theme camps and art installations over the years. People often lose their ability to tell him no, which makes him good at this job. He has a production company in Portland, Ore., and lives there happily with a dog named Raven. Speaker: Shrine Shrine has been a guerrilla folk artist for over twenty years. His paintings and found object/trash sculptures, displaying an accessible and familiar aesthetic, have been featured at numerous galleries and events, and his guerrilla murals dot the Los Angeles cityscape, with other pieces in Edinburgh, London, Chicago, and Portugal, to name …
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Building New Social Relations: Prefigurative Politics in Movements Chair: Andrew Cornell, American Studies, New York Univeristy Chris Dixon, History of Consciousness, University of California, Santa Cruz Cindy Milstein, Institute for Anarchist Studies Deborah Gould, Sociology, University of Pittsburth Harjit Sing Gill, Institute for Anarchist Studies The term prefigurative politics is widespread within various activist movements, and it describes modes of organization and tactics undertaken that accurately reflect the future society being sought by the group. The IWW and other anarchist activists refer to this as “building a new world in the shell of the old.” If a group is aiming to eliminate class distinctions, prefigurative politics demands that there be no class distinctions within that group. The same principle applies to hierarchy: if a group is fighting to abolish some or all forms of hierarchy in larger society, prefigurative politics demands they do the same within their group structure. Cindy Milstein is an anarchist activist and educator who talks at various anarchist and socialist gatherings. One such talk was the very informal but in-depth class, “Anarchism 101″ at the National Conference on Organized Resistance, at the American University in Washington DC, in 2003 and 2004. (See the NCOR Web site for other talks by Milstein each year, including in the new Radical Theory Track.) Milstein’s presentation covers the philosophical roots of anarchism and its …

City of Greenville Special Events Coordinator Will Young interviews “Float Guru” Donnie Whitmire. Donnie gives his Tope 5 tips for building an award-winning parade float. The Blue Star Mothers – Upstate Chapter and the City of Greenville sponsor Greenville’s favorite tradition, the Greenville Poinsettia Christmas Parade. For more than 20 years, the parade has signaled the start of the Christmas season in Greenville. Each year the parade attracts thousands of visitors downtown to view the holiday floats and activities. The parade is traditionally held the first Saturday in December – on Dec. 4 in 2010. The festivities will begin at 6pm. Promote your church, school, business or organization by entering a unit in this year’s parade. Download an application at www.greenvillesc.gov. Deadline for entries is Nov. 1st.

All youth are invited to ride the BMX ramps seen here at the 2007 Grey Cup Festival Nov 22-25, 2007 at the Rogers Centre, Toronto, ON Canada. This video features a message of peace, improved relations between youth and their community, including police officers, and celebrates some of the success of the individuals who have been participating in thisBMX Bike Park youth engagement project since the spring of 2007. The Argos Foundation unveils BMX Bike Park 10/05/07 – Canadian Football League (CFL) Toronto Argonauts • Discuss this story on the Canadian Football League message board… Toronto – The Argos Foundation – Stop the Violence and its partners announced details of the BMX Bike Park Youth Engagement Project at this year’s Grey Cup Festival. Free to the public and open all day, the BMX Bike Park will be housed at the Via Rail Bremner Street Festival during Grey Cup week from November 22 to the 25 and will feature 60 ramps painted by local youth with inspiring murals. This project is made possible through the generosity of co-presenting sponsors the Toronto Police Association & Amalgamated Transit Union Local 113 and community partners Toronto Crime Stoppers, the City of Toronto Parks, Forestry and Recreation and bike park donor Michael Heaton. This project begins with the artistic vision of many young artists under the direction of Scott Mills, Toronto Crime Stoppers School Officer & Legal Graffiti Coordinator, Toronto Police Services. The Bike Park has been displayed …

A short video of the Welch (WV) Municipal Parking Building (September, 1941) designed by HT Hicks, a local architect. Hicks graduated from VMI (Lexington, VA) in 1917. During WWI, he served as an officer in an army training facility in Illinois and survived the 1918 Flu Epidemic. As a civil engineer he was involved in building bridges, highways, and coal processing plants in VA and WV. In the late 1920s he became licensed as an architect in WV and a member of the American Society of Architects. He designed homes, churches, hospital, memorials, office buildings, schools, and this very innovative parking building in Va, WV, and KY. Local tradition has that his curved reinforced concrete and the cantilever supports of the building influenced Frank Lloyd Wright in his design of the Guggenheim in New York. No correspondence, references, or photographs have (to date) been located in the collected works of Wright to support this belief — but the building predates the Guggenheim design period. The parking building stands at a placed where millions of people passed during WWII. The building was on the mainline of the N&W Railway for passenger trains (countless non-military and military) passed daily during WWII. As the trains approached/exited the Welch passenger station. Hicks died in 1952 while on a beach in FL of a heart attack.

Sorry there is no elaborate video – Madoff! The song “Burning Bush is in Your Building” traces the fire of the Burning Bush through our history all the way to your 2008 Hanukah Candles so many years later. It is the same fire. Light is in the air! More fire! More fire! There is more at Bibleraps.com Chorus: Light is in the air, more fire, more fire light is in the air more fireX4 lets go, you lit it, now we shall revisit the burning bush is in your building or perhaps you are forgetting let’s go back to the beginning: Moses – a bush is burning and there is a voice within it, (and there is a voice within it) Echoed to sinai, the fire that descended, never-ended through the desert so the night-time was suspended and its up on Shlomo’s altar, til his temple building ended to Elijah’s fire, grilling with a vengeance cause the fire inside us that is what the light is that small still voice and it seems to’ve gone quiet… So we traveled on to Babylon, stepped on, we got our gravel on yet knowing we’d return rebuild a temple to put our cattle on fire, fire, Ezra led the choir Nehemia will restore ya and the Torah will ignite ya Chorus And then the Greeks came with a unique claim Humans is so perfect you ain’t got no need for The Name or the flame, just like these days, everybody is expected to be truly the same and the tide rose high, but the fire survived and we tucked it inside, just before the darkest night yes Rome scattered stars, like the lord was shooting dice – 7 need …

UNESCO: Urgent Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity – 2009 URL: www.unesco.org Description: Wooden arch bridges are found in Fujian Province and Zhejiang Province, along Chinas south-east coast. The traditional design and practices for building these bridges combine the use of wood, traditional architectural tools, craftsmanship, the core technologies of beam-weaving and mortise and tenon joints, and an experienced woodworkers understanding of different environments and the necessary structural mechanics. The carpentry is directed by a woodworking master and implemented by other woodworkers. The craftsmanship is passed on orally and through personal demonstration, or from one generation to another by masters teaching apprentices or relatives within a clan in accordance with strict procedures. These clans play an irreplaceable role in building, maintaining and protecting the bridges. As carriers of traditional craftsmanship the arch bridges function as both communication tools and venues. They are important gathering places for local residents to exchange information, entertain, worship and deepen relationships and cultural identity. The cultural space created by traditional Chinese arch bridges has provided an environment for encouraging communication, understanding and respect among human beings. The tradition has declined however in recent years due to rapid urbanization, scarcity of timber and lack of available construction space, all of which …

www.ted.com A future more beautiful? Architect Thomas Heatherwick shows five recent projects featuring ingenious bio-inspired designs. Some are remakes of the ordinary a bus, a bridge, a power station … And one is an extraordinary pavilion, the Seed Cathedral, a celebration of growth and light.TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world’s leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes. Featured speakers have included Al Gore on climate change, Philippe Starck on design, Jill Bolte Taylor on observing her own stroke, Nicholas Negroponte on One Laptop per Child, Jane Goodall on chimpanzees, Bill Gates on malaria and mosquitoes, Pattie Maes on the “Sixth Sense” wearable tech, and “Lost” producer JJ Abrams on the allure of mystery. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design, and TEDTalks cover these topics as well as science, business, development and the arts. Closed captions and translated subtitles in a variety of languages are now available on TED.com, at www.ted.com
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Every year, 10 million girls worldwide are married under the age of 18. In June 2011, Gro Brundtland, Mary Robinson and Desmond Tutu travelled to Ethiopia to visit projects that are successfully educating families and communities about the harmfulness of early marriage. Back in the capital, Addis Ababa, they were joined by their fellow Elder Graça Machel and 70 activists from 23 countries who are working to end child marriage. They discussed the challenges they face, from scaling up small community projects to dealing with sensitive topics such as reproductive health and the role of religion and tradition. At the end of their two-day meeting, the group agreed to create a global alliance to end child marriage — “a collective voice,” in the words of Tilahun Giday from Ethiopia, “that will be heard around the globe.” More at theelders.org Photos: theelders.org Gro Brundtland on meeting child brides in Ethiopia: theelders.org Graça Machel on the alliance to end child marriage: theelders.org
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Become a Facebook fan: www.facebook.com Documentary celebrating the University of Alberta’s establishment of the ECMC Chair in Islamic Studies. It explores what this chair means to Muslims and the wider community in Edmonton and Canada, in terms of the diversity of traditions, cultures and interpretations within Islam. It does this in the context of Muslim settlement in the prairie city of Edmonton, including the building of the al-Rashid mosque, which was the first mosque in Canada. The video also outlines the history of the Islamic civilizations going back to the time of Prophet Muhammad (pbuh). It features interviews with Dr. Earle Waugh, Larry Shaben and Nashir Karmali. The Edmonton Council of Muslim Communities, or ECMC, is an umbrella organization made up of 9 communities from the Edmonton Muslim community, including both Shia and Sunni groups, such as the Ismaili, Ithna’ashari and Canadian Islamic Centre. For more information, please see their website: www.theecmc.com I am a Shia Ismaili Muslim filmmaker from Edmonton, Canada, and am currently doing grad school in Islamic Studies & Humanities at the Institute of Ismaili Studies (IIS). Written, Produced and Edited by Aleem Karmali www.crescentproductions.com
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